WIRS EDUCATION HUB
A structured path from imaging to intervention.
The WIRS education programme is being built as a mapped curriculum rather than a series of ad-hoc lectures — six pillars spanning the breadth of interventional radiology, each developed under consultant review and aligned with recognised international training frameworks.
Six curriculum pillars.
Each pillar defines a purpose and a set of learning themes across four levels — Orientation, Core registrar, Advanced exposure and Career pathway. Every topic shows its review status; nothing is presented as approved until a consultant has reviewed it.
IR foundations
A shared baseline in the language, tools and logic of IR — scope of the specialty, imaging in procedural planning, access and device concepts, radiation safety, consent and communication.
Periprocedural patient care
The IR clinician as physician, not technician — patient selection, work-up and optimisation, post-procedural care, and ward and clinic skills.
Core image-guided, non-vascular and oncologic IR
The common-procedure foundation of non-vascular IR — biopsy, drainage and access work that registrars meet earliest and most often — through to hepatobiliary, urinary and enteric intervention and interventional-oncology principles.
Vascular & emergency intervention
Structured exposure to vascular and emergency IR decision-making, from haemorrhage and embolisation pathways — general principles through to specific embolisation subtypes — to venous, dialysis and IVC-filter access concepts.
Neuroradiology & neurointervention
Imaging-led understanding of neurovascular disease, patient selection, multidisciplinary pathways and supervised exposure to neurointerventional practice — from neurovascular anatomy and stroke imaging through to aneurysms, vascular malformations and service development.
Research, governance & career
Evidence literacy and academic output — critical appraisal, audit and quality improvement, research methods, presentation skills, and the career and certification pathways that follow.
Where the curriculum leads.
Registrar learning connects to real training and career pathways — supervised exposure, a prospective logbook, research, the CIRSE curriculum and EBIR, interventional oncology, and neurointervention. WIRS helps members navigate them; it awards no qualification.
How the programme teaches.
The programme mixes active learning with lectures, drawing on the formats below as content is approved.
Monthly lectures
Consultant-led teaching mapped to the curriculum pillars.
Case conferences
Structured review of indication, imaging, technique and outcome.
Journal club
Critical appraisal of evidence relevant to contemporary IR practice.
Workshops & simulation
Hands-on sessions where faculty, equipment and governance permit.
Curated reading
Reading lists aligned to recognised international curricula.
Retrieval & review
Short quizzes and spaced review to make learning stick.
Planned teaching programme.
The first sessions being drafted, each mapped to a curriculum pillar. Nothing here is scheduled: no dates and no named faculty appear until a session is approved. These are discussion drafts for the committee and scientific leads.
Orientation
Introduction to IR and the Wits public-sector context
Take-home. A clear mental model of what IR is and how it fits into Wits public-sector care.
Core registrar
Periprocedural patient assessment and safe IR practice
Take-home. A framework for assessing and optimising a patient before an intervention, and for recognising complications early.
Core registrar
Emergency IR pathways: haemorrhage, embolisation and stroke systems
Take-home. An understanding of how emergency IR and stroke systems work as multidisciplinary pathways — non-procedural, systems-level.
How content reaches this page.
Nothing appears in the Education Hub without review. Every resource follows the same path:
- Step 01
Drafted
Curriculum structure and materials are drafted by the WIRS committee against recognised training frameworks.
- Step 02
Reviewed
Consultant reviewers assess each module for educational suitability before anything is published.
- Step 03
Approved & published
Approved material is published to its pillar — with speaker consent recorded where talks or slides are shared.
Help build the programme.
Registrars, consultants and students who want to teach, review or learn are welcome as the programme takes shape.
Current Wits members can approach the WIRS committee through established departmental channels. Formal society contact details will be published once confirmed.